{"id":11000,"date":"2025-02-01T20:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T01:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=11000"},"modified":"2025-02-01T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T01:07:46","slug":"bride-of-re-animator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/02\/01\/bride-of-re-animator\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride of Re-Animator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Bride of Re-Animator<\/strong> (1990)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 50th<\/sup> Street Films\/Horror-Sci-Fi-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 99 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (graphic violence and gore, some language, nudity, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Brian Yuzna\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Rick Fry, Woody Keith and Brian Yuzna\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Richard Band\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Rick Fichter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: February 22, 1991 (New York, NY)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, David Gale, Kathleen Kinmont, Mel Stewart, Irene Forrest, Michael Strasser, Mary Sheldon, Marge Turner, Johnny Legend.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Bride of Re-Animator<\/strong>, the sequel to the 1985 horror cult classic, never opened theatrically in my neck of the woods (Philadelphia, PA). It would NOT have escaped my notice. I did manage to obtain a bootleg copy in November \u201990 through a friend of a friend. It was a multiple-generation copy meaning it wasn\u2019t all that clear. At the time, I was just glad that I saw it all. I\u2019ve seen it two or three more times since including my Re-Animator marathon this past week. Directed by Brian Yuzna (Return of the Living Dead 3), Bride of Re-Animator<\/strong> is a good movie that doesn\u2019t quite measure up to the original. The narrative is choppy and there\u2019s a noticeable lack of cohesiveness between the plot elements. Some of it is quite good, but it doesn\u2019t fully succeed as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The story picks up eight months after the original with Dr. Herbert West (Combs) and Dr. Dan Cain (Abbott) working as medics in a bloody civil war in Peru. Immediately, I have a few questions. How did West survive the finale of the previous movie? When we last saw him, he was being dragged to his presumed demise by Dr. Hill\u2019s mutated entrails. Considering what transpired in the first movie, how is it these guys are still practicing medicine much less not in jail? They crossed so many ethical boundaries, it\u2019s hard to believe they came back. It turns out they didn\u2019t. They\u2019re still experimenting with the re-animation serum; the high casualty rate from battles gives them plenty of bodies to test it on.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Eventually, they return to Miskatonic Hospital where Dan resumes his medical career and West continues his research. He claims to have unlocked the secret of life, that life exists in each and every one of a body\u2019s cells. He discovers that he can re-animate body parts as well as whole bodies. He decides to create a living person from parts of different bodies- e.g. the feet of a ballerina, the legs of a hooker and the head of a dying patient (Kinmont, Halloween 4) that Dan has come to care about. Oh yeah, West also stumbles across the heart of Dan\u2019s deceased fiancee Megan in the hospital morgue where all evidence of the \u201cMiskatonic Massacre\u201d (as it\u2019s come to be known) is stored. Guess what else is in there? Yep, the severed head of Dr. Hill (Gale) which pathologist Dr. Graves (Stewart, Henry Jefferson from All in the Family) injects with the serum. He\u2019s back!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Making matters worse is a cop, Lt. Chapman (Jones, Evilspeak), who\u2019s been poking around. His reasons for investigating West and Dan go beyond the scope of normal police works. He bears a personal grudge against the men; it seems his late wife was one of the re-animated corpses that wreaked bloody havoc in the climax of the last movie. There\u2019s also a girl, Francesca (Udenio, Summer School), mixed up in the new mess caused by West\u2019s experiments. She is Dan\u2019s new girlfriend who he met while she was working as a journalist in Peru. She comes to the US with her pet dog (you know he\u2019s a goner the minute you see him).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Bride of Re-Animator<\/strong> has more than its fair share of gore although not on a level as extreme as its predecessor. The gore and makeup effects by Screaming Mad George are quite good. Sure, they look cheesy and fakey at times but that\u2019s part of the fun. What it lacks in this area, it makes up for in pure craziness. West creates new lifeforms by combining body parts- e.g. four fingers with an eye on top, the dog with a human hand. The craziest one is really something. Graves surgically attaches bat wings to Hills\u2019 head allowing him mobility, making it easier for him to go after West to get his revenge. Then there\u2019s the woman West builds.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Okay, we all know the obvious inspiration for Bride of Re-Animator<\/strong> is 1935\u2019s Bride of Frankenstein, something the movie cheerfully and openly admits. Like the first movie, it doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously and instead has fun with the genre. It winks at the audience so many times even the most unobservant viewer can\u2019t miss it. With Combs in full mad scientist mode, you\u2019re in for a pretty good time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0While not perfect, Bride of Re-Animator<\/strong> is a reasonably satisfying sequel with a high insanity level. Well, it is based (loosely) on an H.P. Lovecraft story; I\u2019d expect nothing less than a movie that looks and feels like it was made by residents of a madhouse.\"\"<\/p>\n

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